This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar ev…

- Mark Lilla

No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about…

- Mark Lilla

Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped in…

- Mark Lilla

There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for …

- Mark Lilla

Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need someth…

- Mark Lilla